8. The highways shall be deserted, the wayfaring man shall have ceased. He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he respected no man.
9. The earth shall mourn and languish, Leḇanon shall be ashamed. Sharon shall be withered like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel be shaking.
10. “Now I rise up,” declares יהוה. “Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
11. “You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble, your spirit devours you like fire.